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Bill C-26 (and the Tackling Violent Crime Act)
- PDF copy of Bill C-26 | online version, online version 2
- Video: Watch the April 15 debate online (starts at 27 minutes in)
- Video: Watch the February 4 debate online (starts at 6 hours and 24 minutes in)
- Transcript: Bill C-26 February 4, 2008 debate in the House of Commons
- Transcript: Bill C-26 April 15, 2008 debate in the House of Commons
- Transcript: House of Commons votes on Bill C-26 and refers it to the JUST committee on April 16, 2008 in the House of Commons
- Transcript:
Bill C-2 Senate reading on February 27, 2008
Results: Yays and nays, absentations - Official Press Release for Bill C-26
- Proposed new mandatory sentences for serious drug offences
- Action on C-26 - Immediate Letter Writing Campaign
- Canada's Day of Action Against Bill C-26
- Call to Action: Speak out against the Tough on Crime Bills
- Prisonjustice Bill C-26 Timeline
- Tousaw Law on Bill C-2
- Our National Anti-drug Strategy Ad Launch
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Impaired Driving links
- Bill C-32 information (impaired driving)
- Senator Baker's speech on roadside drug/physical dexterity testing
- BCCLA on roadside drug testing
- Tackling drug impaired driving
- Crackdown on drugs and driving
- BC Impaired drivers could lose vehicles
- Cannabis and Driving: A Scientific and Rational Review
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Government of Canada Links
- Our National Anti-drug Strategy
- Status of House Business
- Projected Order of Business
- LEGISinfo: HoC and Senate Agenda
- House Government Bills
- Statutory Resources
- PARLINFO
- Final Report: Cannabis: Our Position for a Canadian Public Policy
- Police Powers and Drug Related Offences
- Organized Crime: It's in your neighbourhood
- Tackling Crime
- Our National Anti-drug Strategy
- Contact your local MP | theyworkforyou.ca | Contact your MP
- MP Contact Information Masterlist
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Bill C-26 and the Tackling Violent Crime Act News
- October 3, 2007: Assessing The 'Threat' Posed By Grow-Ops
- October 4, 2007: Harper vows to help addicts but punish traffickers
- October 5, 2007: Your view: PM wants mandatory sentences for 'serious' drug crimes
- November 2007: Press Commentary on Bill C-26
- November 20, 2007: New legislation would impose minimum sentences for drug crimes
- December 17, 2007: Canada's National Day Of Protest: Bill C-26 Media Coverage
- December 18, 2007: Pot Bill Generates Buzz
- December 18, 2007: Pot protesters oppose Bill C-26
- January 8, 2008: Why is Canada copying failure?
- Febuary 3, 2008: CTV "Tackling Violent Crime Act" article
- Febuary 4, 2008: Drug Policy Events in Ottawa and Vancouver
- February 5, 2008: The Province: LEAP - Fight drugs with health care
- February 12, 2008: Tories table crime bill motion, Liberals walk out
- February 23, 2008: A bad prison situation is about to get worse
- February 26, 2008: Prospect of electoral showdown over Tory crime bill fades in Senate
- February 27, 2008: Crime bill passes in Liberal-dominated Senate
- March 1, 2008: Court backs minimum sentences
- March 14, 2008: Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences counter-productive to public health and human rights
- March 21, 2008: 27 slayings in 80 days
- April 16, 2008: Watch the House of Commons Bill C-26 vote
- April 18, 2008: Tories under fire for flyers
- April 25, 2008: Canada's drug crime bill brings calls for caution from U.S.
- April 30, 2008: Stone Free
- May 3, 2008: Canadian pot activists light up to protest Bill C-26
- May 29, 2008: Insite court decision confirms Canadian drug policy at odds with public health and human rights
- May 29, 2008: Ottawa to appeal safe-injection site ruling
- June 4, 2008: Green Party On Drugs
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Articles, Press Releases, and other informative C-26 sites
- Bill C-26: Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Cannabis Offences
- Good writeup by Kirk Tousaw on what to do about this bill
- Educating Harper
- The revolving door of mandatory minimums
- This is your law on drugs
- NDP will vote no on Bill C-26
- Marijuana Militia: Bill C-26
- Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offences: Why Everyone Loses
- New anti-drug bill likely to lead to more cases of HIV
- Stop Bill C-26 (other C-26 stories)
- Conservative Drug Strategy Won't Lower Crime Rates, Reduce Addiction or Improve Public Health
- Bill C-26: Mandatory Minimums by Libby Davies
- Tougher minimum sentences won't bring us the tranquillity we crave
- Students lobby for a sensible drug policy
- Politics of fear: Harper's 'war on drugs'
- Mandatory minimum sentences 'not effective'
- CSSDP downloads: Economic Fact Sheet: Facts and Figures Relating To Illegal Drugs, Mandetory Minimum Penalties
- Five Problems with the Harper Crime Bills
- Bill C-26: Conservative assault on the judiciary
- Hell, a handbasket and tougher drug laws
- Bill C-26: Cannabis Law and Policy: Options
- Presentation to the Senate, The Tackling Violent Crime Act, By Neil Boyd
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Conservatives spend 3 Million fear mongering on drugs
Welcome to Harpers Drug War! - Montreal Mirror: Prohibition, pot and politics
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Movies and Sound Clips
- HoC debates shown live on CPAC here
- Stephen Harper speaks to the CPA about the Tackling Violent Crime Act
- Stephen Harper speaks to MADD Canada about impaired driving
- Libby Davies explains Bill C-26 on Redeye Radio
- Kirk Tousaw on Bill C-26 and the myth of dangerous grow-ops
- "Stoned Monk Pro" explains C-26 | Bill C-26 Discussion
- "Pot N' Politics" by Weekly Weed Wisdom
- Victoria Protest, Victoria Protest 2
- Vancouver Protest, PotTV Vancouver Dec. 17 Protest
- Cresting Against Bill C-26
- Cloning in opposition to Bill C-26
- Flowering against Bill C-26
- "Redeye" Vancouver radio show on Bill C-26
- Stark Raven: Tough on Crime: Changes to Canada's Prison System
- Regina Protest, Regina Protest 2
- Calgary Protest
- Russell Barth, On Tory Cuts To Medical Marijuana Research
- Michelle's One Plant Rant Constitutional Cannabis Vol.2
- Medical Marijuana in Canada: Eric Nash, Phillip Lucas on Shaw TV
- Libby Davies speaks to the CSSDP at McGill University, 2, 3, 4
- Rick Simspon's Run from the Cure: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7
- Watch the House of Commons Bill C-26 vote
- Bill C-26 and the Extradition
- NEW Kill Bill C-26 Vol.2
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Harm Reduction and other drug policy related websites
- Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy
- InSite Wiki page
- Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy
- The Canadian Harm Reduction Network
- Educators for Sensible Drug Policy
- Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
- The Justice Laws Coalition
- Canada's New National Anti-Drug Strategy: The Canadian AIDS Society Looks Beneath the Surface
- U.S. cities have taken note of Vancouver safe-injection site: conference
- Myths and hysteria bad basis for drug laws
- How Drug Prohibition Finances and Otherwise Enables Terrorism by Eugene Oscapella
- War On Drugs Is Blowing Up In Our Faces by Eugene Oscapella
- War On Drugs Is Lost
- A new breed of the mentally ill puts B.C. facilities near chaos
- Jesus loves harm reduction, but Stephen Harper doesn't
- America's Love-Hate Relationship with Drugs
- The cost of getting high by Tony Clement, federal health minister
- The History and Development of International Leading Drug Control Conventions
- Why Prohibition?
- Protect InSite
- InSite: Incremental Death?
- Stephen Harper is my anti-drug
- Opinion: Drug problem festers in society
- Sam CASTs lot with Insite
- Insite court decision confirms Canadian drug policy at odds with public health and human rights
- B.C. may fight to keep Insite legal
- To help, or at least do no harm: Canada's Health Minister urgently needs an education in harm reduction
- Shut down Insite, writes drug use report author
- Look closely at effectiveness of safe injection site
- Harm-reduction debate is all around us
- Harm-reduction sites have met goals: ethics official
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Activism Links
- A Frank Discussion, cannabis activism
- CannabisCulture forum: important activist links
- Integrate This! Challenging the SPP
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Cannabis Information Links
- Treat Cancer with Hemp Oil
- Cannabinoids as Cancer Hope
- Federal Marijuana Policy Primer
- Marijuana Growing Operations in BC, 1999-2003
- Cannabis facts for Canadians
- The Pot Law Has Fallen
- Cannabis Culture magazine
- Treating Yourself magazine
- Hempology
- NORML.ca
- Eight years of reefer madness
- Blowing Smoke: Health Canada's Marihuana Medical Access Division (MMAR)
- Medical marijuana users more than $500,000 in arrears with Health Canada
- Deadbeat dopers owe big time | Cannabis users not "deadbeats"
- Response to the Deadbeat doper media Hype
- Constitutional pot challenge fails
- Medical Marijuana: Ottawa puts pot contract to tender
- Doubtful Doctors
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